Xiang Gao

Assistant Professor of Public Health Education @University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Greensboro, NC, US

Dr. Xiang Gao is an Assistant Professor of Public Health Education at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG). Dr. Gao also holds a research affiliation with Carolina Asian Center (CAC) at UNC - Chapel Hill. Dr. Gao\'s research seeks to understand how socioecological factors affect health disparity among vulnerable populations. Dr. Gao\'s reach lines cover cardiovascular disease epidemiology in African Americans, driving behaviors in emerging adults, and injury and violence prevention in high school students and Asian Americans. Dr. Gao\'s active research investigates the impacts of sociodemographic and health-related factors on intimate partner violence and domestic violence, firearm laws on firearm violence, and Asian Americans’ experiences with firearm violence. In addition to being an Epidemiologist and public health researcher, Dr. Gao is a pedagogue. Dr. Gao teaches Epidemiology and Public Health Data Analysis for undergraduates. Dr. Gao also teaches Quantitative Methods for master’s and doctoral-level students. Dr. Gao is a McNair Scholar faculty mentor to advocate for underrepresented African American undergraduate students. Dr. Gao also serves on the Undergraduate Program Committee (UPC) in the Department of Public Health Education at UNC-G. Dr. Gao did his postdoctoral fellowship at the Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention (CCISP) in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in the City of New York. Dr. Gao got his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Colorado State University and a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology from Indiana University Bloomington. Dr. Gao advocates for inclusiveness and belongingness for those underrepresented Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) students and scholars in academia. Besides academia, Dr. Gao loves exploring museums, restaurants, and National Parks.